Despite the strictness of the laws on drugs, young people in Singapore are showing a more liberal attitude and are more exposed toward drugs than ever before (according to the Youth and Public Perception Survey).
Based on this survey, in 2016, there are more than 1000 drug abusers from 20 to 29 years old and 277 cases under 20. These data proved that young Singaporean are having the new point of view about drugs today.
Alex, a Malaysian journalist in Singapore said, “Young people do not use heroin anymore. They usually started with the marijuana then the pills, acid, mushroom, stone and so forth. My own experience when smoking weed is everything turns slowly. Pure marijuana is healthier than nicotine”.
Also, the education system in this country is very stressful and they do not have many ways to solve out their stresses. There was an average of about 400 suicide cases in Singapore from 2010 to 2014, said Samaritans of Singapore (SOS). Some students said that want to be young, wild and free like American and European: hangout and chill with friends to feel better.
“I do not think we can be addicted by smoking cannabis. Many things are banned in Singapore and I think the punishment for drugs here is too strict, the death penalty is morally wrong especially when the crime has not resulted in a death. If you want to smoke cannabis, you should go to another country.” said Jason, an art student.
Drugs is one of the hardest things to find in Singapore. From 2015 to 2016, a close to six-fold increase can be seen by online drug transactions. There are more than 200 people were arrested for buying drugs online in 2016, up from 30 in 2015. Their ages were between the ages of 20 and 39, CNB said in February.
An interview of The New Paper has shown that cannabis, pills, cocaine and acid are the most popular to the young. Dealers of said drugs are usually acquaintances whose commodity is only be disclosed between friends or anonymous online markets on the “deep web” - a hard-to-access part of the Internet often used for illegal activities globally.
On the other hand, some people agree with the Singaporean government that drugs should be banned. “I do not have time to get high and I do not want to try it. In my opinion, we can live without drugs so the drugs are unnecessary. But the laws here are too strict. I hope that the government will make the life-sentence as the highest punishment in the future”, said a girl who is studying in SMU.
For the real drug expressions, the stoners have their own experiences about drugs but they all feel exhausted after a trip: lose memories, lose weight or gain weight too much and being emotional in some cases. This will be a risk for the health of the whole Singaporean society.
There are many considerable oppositions to the punishment for drugs in this country. For more information about the Singaporean laws, with more than 30 grams (g) of cocaine, 15g of heroin, 250g of methamphetamines or 500g of cannabis; people have to face with a mandatory death-sentence. Penalties for consumption are also strict: 10 years in jail and a S$20,000 fine or both.
By A Spoon Of Honey
Oct. 13, 2017
References of data:
1.Singapore’s Public Data. (2017). Drug Abusers By Age Group, Retrieved from 
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/abusers-getting-more-brazen 

2. The Straitstimes. (2017). 26-year-old student arrested for buying cannabis online, Retrieved from
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/spike-teen-suicides-2015-sos 

4. The Straitstimes. (2017). Drug use among the young: Abusers getting more brazen, Retrieved from